Re: What are the chances of a Replica II project?

["David Schmidt" <David4602@gmail.com>]

Paul Schlyter wrote:
> In article <PZOdnQJ4Uds8jCHZnZ2dnUVZ_rydnZ2d@comcast.com>,
> Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
> > The Apple II peripheral bus was designed as a leap in expandability
> > and ease of use.  Truly the first real example of "plug and play".
>
> Not quite .... you could not plug in or unplug the cards while the
> Apple II was powered-up - as you can do with PCMCIA or USB.

For an interesting counter-example, see:
http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Scrooge_McDuck.txt

Quoting Andy Hertzfeld's article:
> Cliff [Huston] told me [Andy Hertzfeld] that he could insert
> a disk controller card into Burrell's Apple II with the power
> still on, without glitching it out, a feat that I thought was
> miraculous - you'd have to be incredibly quick and steady not
> to short-circuit any of the contacts while you were inserting
> it, running the risk of burning out both the Apple II and the
> card. But Cliff said he'd done it many times before: all that
> was required was the confidence that you could actually do it.
> So I crossed my fingers as he approached Burrell's Apple like
> a samurai warrior, concentrating for a few seconds before
> holding his breath and slamming the disk card into the slot
> with a quick, stacatto thrust.
>
> I could barely make myself look, but amazingly enough Burrell's
> machine was still running, and the disk booted up so I could
> load the Scrooge McDuck image and my new conversion routine.